[Haskell-cafe] MonadPlus m => Maybe a -> m a

[Alexander Solla]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Thiago Negri <evohunz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm solving this exercise:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/All_About_Monads#Exercise_4:_Using_the_Monad_class_constraint
>
> I'm missing a function to transform a Maybe a into a MonadPlus m => m a.
> I did search on Hoogle with no luck.
>
> There is no standard definition for the "g" function I'm defining?


g :: (MonadPlus m) => Maybe a -> m a
> g Nothing = mzero
> g (Just a) = return a
>

I doubt there is a "standard" named function for this, since conversions
between monads are typically not "unique" and there are lots and lots of
pairs of monads you can convert between.

You can define g in terms of Data.Maybe.maybe as:

g = maybe mzero return
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